Pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma chooses Kuehne and Nagel for temperature controlled transport

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma Ltd., one of the world's leading and most innovative pharmaceutical companies, has chosen Kuehne + Nagel for the management of its temperature controlled transports in five East European countries.


The services Kuehne + Nagel will provide for Boehringer Ingelheim

include temperature-controlled road transportation of thermolabile medical

products to the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Greece and Croatia.


Kuehne + Nagel's cool-chain transport solution, which is adapted to the

sensitive products' specific nature, meets all relevant industry-specific

regulations and the customer's high quality requirements regarding

handling, storage and distribution. In order to provide complete tracing

of constant temperature, Kuehne + Nagel offers a dedicated control and

reporting system.


"As one of the leading pharmaceutical companies we need a logistics

service provider who combines thorough industry know-how with experience

in the East European market," says Martina Brzjchaczek-Koternetz,

Head of Supply Chain Management at Boehringer Ingelheim. "Kuehne +

Nagel is the partner of choice to accompany us on our course for growth."


Bernhard Schilling, Director Business Development Pharma & Healthcare

at Kuehne + Nagel, says: "In recent years we have specifically invested

in our systems, facilities and employees in order to guarantee our high

service and quality standards for the transport of thermolabile products.


To have been chosen by Boehringer Ingelheim as their logistics partner

for these five Eastern European countries is proof of the success of our

efforts. This important cooperation confirms Kuehne + Nagel's strategy

to invest further into specialised products and grow particularly in market

segments such as Pharma & Healthcare and High-Tech / High-Value."